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May 13, 2024 · Her closest companion throughout her life was her elder sister, Cassandra; neither Jane nor Cassandra married. Their father was a scholar who encouraged the love of learning in his children. His wife, Cassandra (née Leigh), was a woman of ready wit, famed for her impromptu verses and stories.
May 7, 2024 · Cassandra, Austen’s only sister, was born in 1773. Austen and Cassandra were close friends and companions throughout their entire lives. It is through the remaining letters to Cassandra that biographers are able to piece Austen’s life together.
2 days ago · Jane Austen in a letter to Cassandra, 11 th June 1799. In her two ‘Bath novels’, ‘Northanger Abbey’ and ‘Persuasion’, Jane presents contrasting attitudes to the city – her own views, perhaps, at different times of her life, but whatever she thought of the city and its fashionable spa, it was important for her work.
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2 days ago · George and Cassandra Austen lived in the Deane parsonage until 1768 when the Steventon parsonage was ready. Their first three children, James, George, and Edward, were born there. Mrs. Austen’s widowed mother, Jane Leigh, also lived with them at Deane, though she died shortly after the move to Steventon.
May 20, 2024 · National Portrait Gallery, museum in London that houses the national collection of portraits of British men and women. It includes portraits of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger; Jane Austen by her sister, Cassandra Austen; Thomas Carlyle by Julia Margaret Cameron; and a self-portrait by Chris Ofili.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 13, 2024 · Pride and Prejudice, romantic novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A classic of English literature, written with incisive wit and superb character delineation, it centers on the burgeoning relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
May 15, 2024 · Austen only had one sister, Cassandra, and they were inseparable friends throughout their lifetimes. She died on July 18, 1817, at the age of 41, and was outlived by all of her immediate family members except her father, who died in 1805.
